Argyllshire Gathering Complete Results & Short Video

Douglas Murray won the Argyllshire Gathering Gold Medal with a wonderful rendition of the tune MacNeill of Barra’s March. He was the unanimous choice of the judge’s bench (see below). Afterwards Douglas said: ‘This is something every piper dreams of achieving. I started trying for the medal 15 years ago so it has taken a lot of work over the years. I have had eight prizes in the event but never the top award.’ Douglas’s success created a unique family double. His older brother James, now teaching piping in Western Australia, won the same Gold Medal in 1997. The remainder of the prize list comprised entirely of Canadian pipers with outstanding playing from Ian K MacDonald, Andrea Boyd, Glenn Brown and Andrew Hayes. I’ll have a more detailed critique of all the performances later but for now, sufficient to say this was a very high standard event. To get in the list was a major achievement.

Here is a clip of Gold Medallist Douglas Murray leading the march to the games park for the 2014 Argyllshire Gathering:

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